When creating permalink structures, care must to taken to ensure that the new structure does not override existing post, page, category, and tag permalinks.

Key Features of the Shiba Media Library Plugin

Enables image tagging and allows you to group images into galleries by using their tags. Images can also to added manually using the regular media manager interface.

In addition to images/attachments, galleries may also contain posts and other galleries. In this way, you group not only images, but also posts, galleries, and any combination of these object types. Here are some fun things you can achieve with expanded galleries.

Easily search for posts, pages, galleries, and more in the expanded media manager interface, and include them directly into a gallery. The days of painfully hunting for IDs are over!

Gallery objects get saved into your WordPress export files. This allows you to keep a backup of your gallery objects, as well as move them from blog to blog.

Expanded media manager image search that allows you to find images based on title and alt text.

Expanded search that allows you to find attachments and galleries based on titles, tags, and categories.

Show the number of posts an image containing an image in the Media >> Library screen.

View most-used tags for post, attachment, and gallery objects.

Quick Edit image attachments.

Adds a new drop-down menu to your existing WordPress Media Library. This menu will allow you to do bulk attachments to both attached and non-attached images.

Detach a set of images from their post so that they revert back to their unattached state.

Shiba Media Library Plugin Menu.

The Power of Galleries and Tags

Gallery objects are stored in the regular WordPress post database. In this way, you get to leverage almost all existing functions that are available for WordPress post objects including displaying your galleries using the WordPress gallery shortcode.

Galleries created with the Shiba Media Library Plugin should also work with other plugins that support the WordPress gallery shortcode.

Why Can’t I Use Tags in the Gallery Shortcode?

The Shiba Media Library addresses the media library back-end and sets up tag links in the WordPress database. I.e., there is a link in the database saying that a particular image is linked to a given tag.

For tags to work in the gallery shortcode, it must also be supported on the gallery front-end – i.e., by the plugin that renders your images. The Shiba Gallery plugin, for example, supports image tags.

However, most gallery rendering plugins do not yet support this extension because it is currently not part of the native WordPress gallery shortcode and is therefore not a standard.

Shiba Media Library 3.2

Permalinks now work properly on network activation and deactivation in WordPress Multisite.

Columns from other plugins are now properly added in the Media Library screen.

Shiba Media Library 3.1

January 17th, 2011

Updated for WordPress 3.1. Tested in WP 3.0 and WP 3.1,RC2.

Fixed numerous bugs in the gallery query system. Gallery types should now work properly.

Cleaned up the plugin so that gallery objects are now always custom post types. As a result the plugin requires WP 3.0 and above. If you are using WP 2.9, then please download Shiba Media Library 3.0.

Shiba Media Library 3.0.3

November 25th, 2010

Fixed bulk operations in the Google Chrome browser. Shiba Media Library now has its own menu in the media screen.

Cleaned up the gallery tagging system so that tagged gallery images can now be properly ordered with order, orderby, numberposts, and offset arguments. This makes it much easier to enable gallery paging.

Media Library Plugin 2.7

Also fixed some bugs associated with the permalink creation function. In particular, I refined the regular expression for gallery attachment images and added more rules for validating the gallery permalink structure.

Media Library Plugin 2.6

As requested by Keoshi, I have added in the ability to edit your entire gallery permalink structure.

Media Library Plugin 2.5

I just finished making some large changes to the permalink redirect code. If you are having permalink redirect issues, in particular with your feeds, then please download the latest version.

Media Library Plugin 2.3

Expanded gallery objects so that they may contain posts, pages, and other gallery objects; in addition to image attachments.

You may now assign thumbnails to galleries. This uses the Post Thumbnail system introduced in WordPress 2.9, so you will need at least version 2.9 and a gallery front-end that knows how to render posts to fully realize the power of this feature.

You can now navigate to gallery objects, just like you do with attachments. Gallery object pages are rendered using the gallery shortcode.

** Thanks to Keoshi for making many of the great suggestions that went into this plugin update.

Media Library Plugin 2.2

Fixed a bug in Release 2.1 where Trash links for posts and pages no longer work properly. This is an important bug fix so please download the latest version of the plugin.

Media Library Plugin 2.1

Added bulk-actions, search, and date filter to the Manage Gallery screen. Now you can perform the same menu view operations on galleries as you can with posts and pages.

Integrated the Manage Gallery menu with the WordPress Trash system. Now you can move galleries to the trash, untrash, or delete them permanently.

Fixed various bugs with gallery links, trash links, as well as image tags. The gallery and tag system should now work a lot more smoothly.

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I tried to reach your support, however a support site isn*t available. Hoewever I’ts nice what you develop, however not in practice to use. Why? I#m using the plugin “Shiba Media Library” for my photography site, but to create a great gallery it will take hours and hours, this because it is only possible to oragnze the images by drop-down, as well as to scroll up and down, where you lost the overview totally. Why is it not possible to create a square overview where you can see all uploaded image in one, wehre you will be able to move these from left to right or from above to down. Now it’s economically unreasonable, as it takes a lot of time right now to make a proper gallery. Thanks for your understanding and looking forward for a solution. Regards, Steven

I’m using the Titan Photographer Theme, that contains the Shiba Media Library Plugin. With the update from WordPress 4.5 to 4.6 the Galleries Tab stopped working.

The images under the “Gallery Images” Headline arent loading in.

Looking at the code of the website, i discovered that the table rows in the tbody with the id “the-list” load without any content like this:

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Activating the error_reporting shows the following error:

Notice: Indirect modification of overloaded property WP_Media_List_Table::$_args has no effect in /home/httpd/docs/example.com/wp-content/themes/pptitan/plugins/shiba-media-library/shiba-mlib-add.php on line 199

Dumping the $table variable showed that the tbody is already in there with empty table rows.

I’m assuming, that the $table variable is not correct.

I hope that i could help you or other people with that information. If anyone finds a solution to this problem, it would be nice from you to post it here.

Hello Tom, so sorry for the late reply. Been crazy busy lately. First of all, thank you very much for your support and kind words.

At this time, we can only manage Patreon. They have both credit card and Paypal options, and a good interface for messages and posts. Thanks for writing to us and once again, many thanks for your support and understanding.

Well, it depends on what you are trying to do. As I understand it, Network Shared Media allows you to share images across multiple blogs. That is not the function of Shiba Media Library. I list what Shiba Media does in the article above.

I am using Titan theme, which also use inside Shiba Media Library Plugin. Some time ago I start using new plugin WP/LR Sync ttp://apps.meow.fr/wplr-sync/, which help me to download media files directly to site from my photo archive in Lightroom. Since version 2.0 there is new great function – plugin extensions (http://apps.meow.fr/wplr-sync/wplr-extensions/) which helps create collections or galleries in Lightroom and sync them with Themes/Plugins for which author has developed extension.

There is a little supported themes/plugins, but author wrote:

” If you would like to have your collections available in your gallery plugin or theme through WP/LR Sync, contact your theme developer and let him know about this. I will collaborate with the developer.”

So is it possible the author to collaborate with you, to make WP/LR Plugin extension to work with your Shiba Media Plugin? I much interested to sync collections in Lightroom directly to galleries in Shiba Media.

If it is possible, how author of WR/LR sync can contact with you? By mail?

That”s a pretty good question from Eugene. I use WP/LR Sync too and it”s a quite good tool to stay synchronized between WP and LR but i see since long time no response unfortunately from the gallery author.

HI, I am having a problem with the shiba gallery. Problem is: Images dont show up at all. Haven’t edited the site for a while, but updated plugins and wordpress to the newest version (4.2.2.). I run Core Theme 3.4. which uses the shiba gallery.

Already tried to deactivate all other plugins, but no result. I cannot add pictures – button is missing. Pictures show on website and are on ftp-server, but dont show up in wordpress admin.

Will there be a bugfix? What can I do until then? Appreciate your help. Thanks, jens

I think I tracked the issue down to the shiba-mlib-add.php file. I compared both versions of that file from shiba media library version 3.3 and 3.9 using filemerge in Mac’s developer tools. There are significant differences between the two files which may be what was causing the button not to function correctly. I downloaded the old shiba media library version 3.3 and just uploaded shiba-mlib-add.php to the new shiba media library 3.9 replacing the newer version completely. It seems that everything works again and the button reverted to the working “Add New” version from 3.3. I can now add new images. I’m sure my website will probably explode as a result of this inelegant solution but everything is working for now.

Hello, I can’t add new images in the Gallery with WordPress 4.2.2 and Shiba Media Library 3.9. The “Upload Or Attach Images” button doesn’t function at all. I click on it and nothing happens. I reverted to WordPress 4.1.5 and Shiba Media Library 3.3 and everything works again. I inspected the button in Firefox debugger and after updating the function changes from a form with inner html

For some reason, when I go into a gallery and edit it, the option to upload/edit photos (at the bottom) disappears 90% of the time. When it doesn’t disappear, I click “add photos” and it freezes the page entirely.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a different way to edit a gallery?

Hi there, I’m on WP 4.1.1 & having the same issue noted above. When I log into the admin, go to Galleries > Photo Gallery & click Edit I get a 404 error. It happens on the other gallery as well. I appreciate any help 🙂

I must be on another planet. I downloaded the WP Media library plugin but there is no ‘media-library-plus.zip file’ for me to upload according to your instructions. All I have is a js folder and in the Developer they are all php files. No plus zip file.

Hi! I am trying to move from one theme to another. Right now I am using Shiba and would like to carry over my galleries based on tags to the new theme which uses another gallery plugin – WP Simple Gallery.

Do you know of a way to have that other plugin see which images are in the Shiba Galleries? I am trying to edit the code but cannot find a solution yet.

hi! I’m having troubles with the Media Library for a few days. I have this error when I try to add new images to my gallery: Fatal error: Call to protected method WP_List_Table::get_column_info() from context ‘Shiba_Media_Library_Add’ in /path_to_plugins/shiba-media-library/shiba-mlib-add.php on line 185

The error is always visible when you are editing or creating a new slide at the bottom of the page. I’m trying to disable other plugins to test but it doesn’t work.

I had other problem like a month ago, but was solved re-installing the plugin. I tried it but doesn’t work.

Hello Shibashake I have a question, I will appreciate if you answer me. Few years ago I worked with blogspot. In there we could connect blogger to our picasa albums. So in editor panel when I wanted to put a image in article, It showed me albums of pictures in picasa.

It was so nice because images from a specific article was in related album name in picasa.

But wordpress does not have this feature, Its a mess, its a disaster. I want to see them in folders (not a gallery). Is this what your plugin do?

The way the tags work in Shiba Media Library is that they allow you to add images in bulk to a gallery. For example, I could tag a set of my vacation images with vacation-2014. Then, I could create a gallery and add the tag vacation-2014 into it. The gallery would then get populated with all images that have that tag.

If you add two tags (e.g. vacation-2014, vacation-2013), then the gallery will get populated with all images with tag vacation-2014 *OR* vacation-2013.

All images that are *manually* added to a gallery will always be shown. Therefore, if I manually add three images of Disneyland into my vacation gallery, then they will also be shown regardless of their tags.

Also when I disable your plugin the tags I just added disappear

The tags are still stored in the database. They just are not shown in the interface because the tag column is added by my plugin.

Hi, I’m using Jupiter theme (themeforest) for my magazine and since I couldn’t create any new gallery for a few day I came here to understand why. I’ve now realized that I’ve been using a rather old version of the pluing (3.6!) so that might be the issue. the point is that I’ve never had an “Update Plugin” message for shiba so now, If I want the latest version I need to uninstall and re-install it (weird, never happend w/ any other plugin). My question is: will I lose the existing galleries and pictures in doing so? is there anything else I can do to avoid uninstalling the plugin? thanks lot.

The galleries and pictures will all be there after re-install. If you want to avoid uninstalling the plugin, you can ftp the new files over to your server. This is what I do for my live sites. I also test everything out on a mirror site first before updating my main sites.

This plugin is not in the official WP directory, which is why you don’t get the usual update messages.

Greetings. Having a bit of trouble since upgrading to WordPress 4.0.1. When I try to drag and drop to rearrange gallery pics, the images won’t move. I’m currently using Shiba Media Library 3.8.2. Caould you please let me know if there is anything I can do to correct this yet. Thank you.

Thanks for this great plugin. Just curious, does this plugin allow to delete files permanently from uploads folder when you click on “Delete Permanently”. Because by default, it doesn’t delete files from disk.

When the plugin is active, i cannot add images into an article from the “add media” button at article-edit page. Iclick on an image in the library, but nothing happens. i cannot click on “insert Image”. Close button works.

1. To change what post types get shown, I hook into the ‘parse_query’ filter. This includes *all* queries though, so you would need to condition check properly to determine where you want to show what post types.

We are really stuck on one other thing i.e. the ‘detach’ function is not working for images that are added using ‘tags’. We searched your site and saw the same issue reported by another user and an old response of yours saying that it only works for images that are manually added as the parent-child relationship is missing for one’s added via tags.

But we would like to know is there any workaround for this issue? Like going into the database and deleting the ID of that image or something? Please help…

Yeah, the detach function is actually not very relevant now. There are two ways to attach images – 1. Picking the images that you want using the Upload and Attach Images button. 2. Using tags.

Using method 1, you can add or remove whatever images you want using the regular WP gallery interface.

Using method 2, you can add or remove entire sets of images by adding or removing tags. If you want to remove a particular image from a “tag group” simply remove the given tag from the image. You can do this in bulk from the main Media Library screen, or you can do that singly by editing the image.

For interface simplicity, the tag operand used is OR. For more complex tag expressions, you can hook into the posts_where WP filter.

Hey! I just downloaded v 3.6 and installed on WordPress 3.5.1. I love the way you have everything set up. It’s -much- better than any of the other media library plugins I’ve found.

I’m just wondering—is there any way I can use tags from custom taxonomies I’ve already created? I’m creating a portfolio with three different sections (case studies, videos, and an image gallery) which are to be using the same set of tags. So it doesn’t really work for me to use the Shiba-specific Attachment Tags (which I imagine would otherwise provide me the functionality I need).

I have been testing the media library plugin a bit more. There’s one bug: if you try to delete a large number of pictures from the media library, your pluging provokes an “URL TOO LONG” error. The same number of pics, deleted without your plugin get deleted without a problem. easy to test: set media library to show 100 attachments, select them all, select bulk action “delete” and you got the error. Second thing (it’s not an error, just annoying, and WP has exactly the same problem): if I upload a few hundred pictures and select a tag before clicking on “insert into post” the tag is only applied to the last uploaded picture. I have to return to the media library, and select all uploaded pics, apply the tag and then, finally, all my attachments have the tag. It would be nice to apply all the settings to all the selected attachments in one go. But I guess you just use the core procedure from WP there.

Yes, that is right. In the media manager pop-up, the interface to the right only applies to the current selected image. For example, if you changed the image title, you would not want that to be applied to multiple images. Similarly, it would be inconsistent to apply tag changes to multiple images.

As for categories, there may be other plugins that support it, or feel free to modify the plugin to better suit your purposes.

I tried shiba-media-library, and it does what it promised, it works great. But it’s completely useless for me. My blogs are based on categories, not tags. My Table of Contents page is category based, people search and find articles based on categories, when they navigate around, they stay in the category of their interest, etc, etc. Tags are only used by flickr and technorati and are in reality completely useless when it comes to helping users find what they are looking for. What I am looking for is – a way to see only attachments that belong to one category in the media library – a way to “bulk” add my existing pictures to a category – a way to “bulk” add all pictures I upload to a post via Media Library to the same category as my post I hoped to be able to do all that with shiba-media-library, but now it turns out that I can’t do anything of that at all unless I start using tags. Nevertheless, I guess I am not the only one who has well structured blogs based on categories. So my question is: is it somehow possible to have your nice shiba-media-library with just one difference: not using tags but categories?